nothing specific to pete barrara.his was all just routine. >> this is a standard operating procedure for a new administration around this time to ask for the resignation of all the u.s. attorneys. >> did he the president ask him to stay on during the transition? >> i was not privy to that conversation. i'm not sure how it's relevant at the end of the day. the department of justice asked all remaining 46 at this time that they asked for all of them to submit their letter of resignation. >> who knows if they asked him to stay on even though they said publicly at the time that they asked him to stay on. he's one of 46 that got fired. why are you asking about him? the white house explanation is that there's nothing weird here. nothing to see here. nothing special about pete barrar being fired even though he had previously been asked to stay. it's fine. stop asking. at which point you should say, okay, yeah, but you also said you didn't ask for missile launchers for the inaugural parade, right? and now we know you did. dem

>> i think it's only getting more attention because of pete barrara, to be honest. he's the highest profile attorney in the southern district of new york, and because of that pledge that chuck schumer, the democratic senator, got out of then-president-elect trump that he would keep pete barrara in place. there's a couple things you have to keep in mind. number one, the relationship between schumer and trump has soured big time. i don't think he thinks he has to uphold that deal anymore. you have to remember what political parties use u.s. attorneys for. it is used in many cases to seed the political party of future governors, mayors, senators. u.s. attorneys are usually where your next level of political leaders come from in every new political administration when you have a change in parties likes to sort of reseed the u.s. attorney slots in that respect. politically, if he ever wants to run for office, he's been very clever about how he's gone about this this week. he raised his i.d., he raised his profile. if he's a candidate for new york city, he's gone about it